National Republican., 1887-12-12

while bis cousin, who has been skillful enough
TO steal my thousand dollars nom the city,
you will make him candidate for the New
There is a great deal OF uneasinese and
nervousness now among some people In our
time who have gotten unrighteous a fortunes fortunes
tell them that God Will put under their I'M
righteous fortunes something more explosive
than dynamite, the earthquake OF HIS omnipo-
America that sin Ia not excusable In propor-
tion as II declares large dividends and has
outriders In equlpsge. Many man is riding
to perdition postilion ahead and lackey be.
hind. To steal one copy OF newspaper is a
gnat; to steal many Thousands CT dollars Is a
camel. There In many q fruit dealer who
from neirhbor's stall. but who would not
scrupe TO depress the fruit market; and 80
long as can remember we have heard every
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Interpretation makes difference OF MILL
Ions OF dollare man who would not
,iss ,SSa,snS one peIss psssch sss GO 'eSs down y
the summer time into the mercantile
library. in the reading rooms, and
see the newspaper reports Of the crops from all
very much the same and the same men wrote
them, methodically and infamously carrying
out the huge lying about tho grain crop from
issf yse Ss 81 the Wheat
market, and men who had contempt for a
petty theft " III burglarize the wheat bin OF q
nation and commit larceny upon the Ameri,
In churches and in reformatory institutions
trying to strain out the. small gnats OF scoun:
drelism, while In their grain elevators and
camels, which they expect after while to
swallow. Society has to be entirely recon-
structed on this subject We nre to find that's
! know IN our time the tendency is TO charge
religions frauds upon good men,. They say,
"Ob, what n class OF frauds you have In the
cb urch Of God in this day." aud when an
elder OF a church, or deacon, or a minister
OF the Gospel or q superintendent ota SAP
bath school turns out a defaulter,. what dis
play heads there are In many 81 he me- neSs Ns
tHnother Saint Absconded,S Clerical sconn. n
drelism." Religion al. a Discount" SHANE
scoundreis Sc outside the church to to whers there
is one inside the church. and the misbehavior
OF those who never see the inside offs church
is 80 great y is enough to tempt man to b..
But in all circles, religious and irreliglou', the
tendency is to excuse sin In proportion ~ 1t is
mammolh:. Even John Milton In his Para
disc Lost,",while he condemns Satan gives
such grand description OF him you have
hard work to suppress your admiration Oh;
this ttraining out OF small sins like gnats, and
this.gulping down great iniqnities like camels.
This subject does not give the picture OF one
or two persons. but It is gallery IN which
thousands of people may see their Likeness.
would not rob their neighbor of farthing ap-
| propriate the money and the treasure Of the
puDlic. man has a house to sell, aud he
tells his customer 1t is worth s2o, 600. Next
| day the assessor comes around, thelowner says
| II is worth $4,000. The government OF the
United States took OIL the tax from personal
| income, among other reasons because so few
| people would tell the truth, and many man
with an income Of hundreds OF dollars a day
| made statements which seemed to imply he
| was about to be handed over 10 the overseer OF
| CQrpful
Liverpool to New York. yet smuggling in their
Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and
land, telling the custom house officers on the
wharf, There Is nothing In that trunk bnt
wearing apparel" and putting IS gold piece
in his hand to ppnctuate the statement
Described in the text are all those who are
| particular never to break the law of grammar,
| and who want all their language an elegant
specimen Of syntax, straining out all the inac-
| curacies of speech with fine sieve of literary
| criticism, while through their conversation 60
slander and innuendo, and profanity and
falsehood larger than whole caravan OF
law Of the language and shock intellectual
taste, ana better let every verb seek in vain
for Its pominative, and every noun for Its gov
the senience and aGeetves and Si' psrticples M 3
and pronouns get into a grand riot worthy OF
the fourth ward on election day than TO- COM
mt moral tnhsSSIracy nnS Better swallow
Such persons are also described in the tex,
who are very much alarmed about the small
faults Of others and have no alarm about their
community and in every church Watchdog
others and growI. They are iali Of suspicious
man Is not unclean, II there ~ not something
wrong about the other man. They are always
the first to hear Of anything wrong. Vultures
| are always the first to smell Carri0n. They
| are self sppointed detectives. lay this down
as rule without any execution. that those
people who haye the most faults themselves
| are most merciless in their watching OF others
| From scalpof head to sole of foot they are full
of jealousies and ypeririticisms They spend
| their life In hunting for muskrats and mud
| turtles instead OF hunting for Rocky mountain
eagles, always for something mean Instead o.
something grand. They look at their neigh
bors' imperiections through a microscope and
az INSIDE oW Tnwn Ten,v 30
| own do not hurt them so much as one fault ol
somebody else. Their neighbors' i'm perIectioni
are like gnats, and they strain them out; theiI
ewn imperfectlons are like camels, and they
| swallow them.
But lest some might think they escape the
scrutiny Of the text: have to tell you that We
| all come under the divine satire when we make
the questions of time more prominent than the
| questions of eternity. Come now. let us all go
into the confessional. Are not all tempted &c
greater than the question, Where shall live
forever? How shall get more dollars here
greater than the question. How shall lay ny
|
Ipay my debtsto man? greater than the gues
tion, How shall / meet my obligations to God
the question, How shall 1 gain the world
I soul the question, Why did God let sin comt
into the world? greater than the question
How shall get 1t extirpated from my nature
the question, What shall do with the twenty
or forty, or seventy years of my sublunar ex ist
ence? greater than the question, What shall
do with the millions of cycles of my post ter
| restrial existence? Time, how small 1t is
Eternity, how vast 1t is The former more In
| significant In comparison with the latter thar
gnat Is insignificant when compared with
camel. We lodged the text. We said, "rha
doesn't mean me, and that doesn't mean me, ;
and with ruinous benevolence we are givln!
| theIwhole sermon away.
But let us all surrender to the charge. Wha
an ado about things here What poor prepa
ration for great eternity As though a m in
| now were larger than a behemoth, as though
a swallow took wider circuit than an albatross
as though nettle were taller than Lebanon
cedar, as though gnat were greater than
camel, as though minute were longer than
century, as though time were higher, deeper
broader than eternity. So the text which
flashed with lightning of wit as Christ uttered
| It, Is followed by the crashing thunders o
awful catastrophe to those who make the Ques
tions of time greater than the questions of tn,
| future, the oncoming, Oyershadowing future
Oh, eternity eternity eternity
Perseverance Lodge OF Good TempIars
The regular meeting of this thriving
| lodge In Elka, Hall last SATURDAY. evenInU